Chap 7: Section 4

Question 1

What was the USA’s most divisive (alienating) issue?

Answer 1

Whether slavery should expand westward

Question 2

What state applying for statehood made tensions rise?

Answer 2

Missouri (1819)

Question 3

What states did the Union consist of in 1819?

Answer 3

11 free and 11 enslaved states

Question 4

Missouri Compromise

Answer 4

This legislation admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a non-slave state at the same time, so as not to upset the balance between slave and free states in the nation

Question 5

What problem developed after the implementation of the Missouri Compromise?

Answer 5

Members of the Missouri constitutional convention said that free African Americans could not enter Missouri

Question 6

What did the Missouri controversy threaten?

Answer 6

Missouri’s admission to the Union

Question 7

How many candidates ran for president in 1824?

Answer 7

4

Question 8

What did all 4 candidates have in common?

Answer 8

They were all Republicans and they were all “favorite sons”

Question 9

“Favorite Sons”

Answer 9

A politician whose electoral appeal comes from their native state, rather than their political views

Question 10

What 2 candidates represented the West?

Answer 10

Andrew Jackson from Tennessee and Henry Clay from Kentucky

Question 11

What candidate represented the South?

Answer 11

William Crawford from Georgia

Question 12

What candidate represented New England?

Answer 12

John Quincy Adams of Massachusetts

Question 13

How did Crawford run?

Answer 13

Based on TJeff’s principles (strict constructionist)

Question 14

How did Clay run?

Answer 14

Favored national bank (AHam) and other things that together were the American System (internal improvements, bank, tariffs, etc)

Question 15

How did Adams run?

Answer 15

Similar to Clay but didn’t show as much enthusiasm for tariffs as Clay did (American System)

Question 16

How did Jackson run?

Answer 16

Campaign focused on his heroic ways during the battle of New Orleans; didn’t focus on specific issues

Question 17

Which two of the candidates were rivals and why?

Answer 17

Clay and Jackson (disliked each other, and been rivals for political leadership)

Question 18

Who won the election of 1824?

Answer 18

John Quincy Adams

Question 19

Corrupt Bargain of 1824

Answer 19

Jackson argued that Henry Clay (Speaker of the House) convinced members of the House to vote for Adams.

Question 20

What was the party of JQA now called?

Answer 20

National Republicans

Question 21

What were the JQA opps called?

Answer 21

Democratic-Republicans

Question 22

How did JQA win the election of 1824?

Answer 22

Clay threw his political weight behind Adams and helped him win the House election easily

Question 23

What was Adams’ first message to Congress?

Answer 23

That along with internal improvements, Adams urged that federal revenue also be used to build a national university and astronomical observatories, and to fund scientific research

Question 24

What were JQA’s proposals similar to?

Answer 24

His father’s Federalist principles

Question 25

What did Congress end up granting funds for?

Answer 25

Improving rivers and harbors and extending the National Road westward

Question 26

What set the stage for Adams' loss in 1828?

Answer 26

The repeated rebuffs (rejections)

Question 27

Who were the two candidates pitted against each other in the 1828 presidential election?

Answer 27

JQA and Andrew Jackson

Question 28

Mudslinging

Answer 28

The use of insults and accusations, especially unjust ones, with the aim of damaging the reputation of an opponent

Question 29

What did Jackson revive?

Answer 29

The alleged “corrupt bargain” between Adams and Clay as evidence that the president was untrustworthy.

Question 30

Who won the election of 1828 and who was the main supporter of the winner?

Answer 30

Jackson; Western and southern men (rural and smalltown men who felt Jackson was most likely to represent their interests)